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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2018 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 12/09/2018 5:43:14 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/09/2018 5:43:14 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Nothing as funny as the “revolution eats its own” phase.


2 posted on 12/09/2018 5:48:02 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Kaslin

We saw this coming when the SJW mob forced Al Franken out of the U.S. Senate seat he stole for a photo taken a decade earlier.


3 posted on 12/09/2018 5:51:07 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Most people don’t care about the Oscars. As the ratings have shown, fewer and fewer people each year watch them. This is due, in part, to the fact that the Oscars hold so many of us in contempt

This is incorrect.

Nobody cares about the "Oscars" because the films being awarded are unworthy. The awarded films are dreary, poorly written, shabby directed, and over-acted ego strokes that are attempting to advance an agenda, not entertain.

Last film I paid $$$ to see was American Sniper.

4 posted on 12/09/2018 5:55:05 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Kaslin

The guillotine eventually claimed those who ran it.


5 posted on 12/09/2018 6:00:08 AM PST by lurk
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To: Kaslin

Why do people fear basement dwelling keyboard komandoes? I can understand how doxing can be a problem, but darned if I would bend over backward for something I said, particularly in jest.


6 posted on 12/09/2018 6:06:28 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Kaslin

The Tolerance Party tolerates no dissent or deviation from their script of hate...


7 posted on 12/09/2018 6:08:19 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Kozak

This is what happened after the french revolution. They executed their own leaders.


8 posted on 12/09/2018 6:12:57 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Kaslin

“James Gunn, was fired when years-old stupid tweets “

One tweet read: ‘I like when little boys touch me in my silly place.’

That’s not stupid, that’s sick.


9 posted on 12/09/2018 6:13:41 AM PST by suthener
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To: Vigilanteman

We saw this coming when the SJW mob forced Al Franken out of the U.S. Senate seat he stole for a photo taken a decade earlier.


I agree. I thought Franken stole the election and I disagreed with him on every opinion, but I supported him in this. My guess was that he fell on his sword to get Trump to bow out of the election in a sort of, “See! We democrats take this seriously!” sort of way.

Didn’t work.


10 posted on 12/09/2018 6:14:38 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Ouderkirk

I look at the Oscars the way most of the country looked at them in the 1930’s. I really don’t care.


11 posted on 12/09/2018 6:15:24 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: cuban leaf

This is just an extension of Communist China’s Cultural Revolution.

Remember Obama’s Fundamental Transformation?

Here we are.


12 posted on 12/09/2018 6:17:24 AM PST by TADSLOS (I wish Adam and Eve had been Cajuns. They would have ignored the apple and ate the snake.)
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To: Vigilanteman
We saw this coming when the SJW mob forced Al Franken out of the U.S. Senate seat he stole for a photo taken a decade earlier.

He stole that seat fair and square, and it's an outrage he should lose it for such a reason!

13 posted on 12/09/2018 6:21:30 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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Ah yes, the hagiography of the snowflakes, the triumph of the most easily offended which leads inevitably to ever greater efforts at being offended because the real rewards of the victim trophy. This is a prime and unexpected side-effect of the internet non-press, the ability of the basement dwellers to influence the rest of the world. When the ‘press’ was measured by the cost of the column-inch or the broadcast minute, there were eagle-eyed editors, answerable to their cost-conscious masters, to winnow the wheat from this chaff.

The Oscars, along with the other pop-culture award shows, are a prime example of what is now infecting the internet, the ability of the ephemeral movie people to gain publicity by acting outrageously. This has been done for decades but now, with the effective primacy of the LEFT and its chosen cohorts of the MSM and pop-culture, it is magnified.

I haven’t watched any of these for decades yet the MSM is always ready to tell of their importance in my life. Water off a duck’s back for me!


14 posted on 12/09/2018 6:24:44 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Kaslin

Good article. Too grew up with “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me”, and I tell that to my grandchildren every time I think they need to hear it.


15 posted on 12/09/2018 6:31:09 AM PST by Rusty0604
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I quit giving what little care I had for the Oscars when Hollywood picked the vapid Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.
16 posted on 12/09/2018 6:31:28 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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Forgiveness is also apparently out the window. Anyone committing the sin of not being politically correct must be destroyed.


17 posted on 12/09/2018 6:36:38 AM PST by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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the oscars are awards for people who pretend for a living.

I’d rather support awards for people who actually do some thing in their lives not pretend to be someone or have done something.

the older I get the more it amazes me we celebrate pretenders (celebrities and many politicians, many leaders of various organizations who are just do nothing figureheads) and they get paid huge amounts of money and lavished with perks, yet most of us live daily lives doing thousands of unrecognized more important things.


18 posted on 12/09/2018 6:44:07 AM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Kozak

Throughout history it[the revolution[ always has eaten its own.


19 posted on 12/09/2018 6:48:45 AM PST by sport
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To: Ouderkirk

“Nobody cares about the “Oscars” because the films being awarded are unworthy.”

^This. They do it every year, so even if all the films are garbage, they can still pick the “best” for an award. If just once someone from “the Academy” would step up and announce that no films made during the past year met their standards for an award, it might be more entertaining.


20 posted on 12/09/2018 6:50:13 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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